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Cochabamba!: Water War in Bolivia » (1st Edition)
Authors: Oscar Olivera, Tom Lewis, Tom Lewis
ISBN-13: 9780896087026, ISBN-10: 0896087026
Format: Paperback
Publisher: South End Press
Date Published: November 2004
Edition: 1st Edition
Author Biography: Oscar Olivera
A world-renowned environmental leader and recipient of the 1993 Alternative Nobel Peace Prize (the Right Livelihood Award), Shiva has authored several bestselling books, most recently Earth Democracy. Activist and scientist, Shiva leads, with Ralph Nader and Jeremy Rifkin, the International Forum on Globalization. Before becoming an activist, Shiva was one of India's leading physicists.
Book Synopsis
Cochabamba is the first book about the successful fight against water privatization and corporate-globalization in Bolivia.
Table of Contents
| Water democracy | ||
| About this book | ||
| Of prefaces, spaces, and written voices | 1 | |
| The water war | 7 | |
| The Coordinadora : one year after the water war | 53 | |
| The "multitude" | 65 | |
| Directing SEMAPA : an interview with Luis Sanchez-Gomez | 87 | |
| SEMAPA : globalizing solidarity | 95 | |
| The new world of labor | 105 | |
| A political thesis | 117 | |
| For a constituent assembly : creating public spaces | 129 | |
| Toward a national and continental rebellion | 141 | |
| Petroleum and natural gas : reconquering our collective patrimony | 153 | |
| The legacy of the Coordinadora | 161 | |
| The significance of the gas war | 175 | |
| Afterword : they can't privatize our dreams | 187 |
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